Do I need to root to retrieve deleted photos off Mobile Phone / Android OS / LG G2

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Ich_bin_noob

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Okay so I deleted some photos a few months back that I need to get back for my company.

I have looked up that I need to use some sort of recovery program BUT none of these programs seem to be able to see my phone when it is hooked up to my PC.

-Yes, I can see that my phone is connected and it shows up in Computer\VS980 4G. (Shows up under Portable Devices)
-I have tried Glarys Undelete / Steller Pheonix / Pandora Recovery. None of these sees the phone.
-I have also tried Recuva, at first it actually found the phone and I could see that it was scanning the phone but after it scanned it showed a blank list and could not find the phone. Now when I try to use Recuva, it is unable to see the phone at all just like all the other apps.
-I have read in a few blogs where people mention I should root the phone first... Any thoughts on this? I honestly would rather not root it if it risks damaging my phone at all.

 
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"A few months back", the data has most likely been overwritten (some of it 3+ times)

With dropbox and all of the other cloud storage auto-uploading software out there, there is no excuse to not have anything important backed up.
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Ich_bin_noob

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It wasn't important too me. Just my company asked me to take some pictures of my own phone for something, which I did and gave them. Then they come back 3 months later saying that photo is extremely important and they need it. cuz they deleted their copy or something. Stupid.
 
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Well just for future reference:
You can mount the phone to a pc as a usb device and see local storage and you can run recuva on that without root.
To do anything directly from phone you would need root
There are apps that add a recycle bin to android (like windows) but in this case unless you left it in the bin for 3 months it would not help you

Undeleting a file works because when you "delete" a file it does not erase the data, it just marks that location in memory as available to be written to.
If you run a scan program like recuva quick enough then it can find the file, but once the system has overwritten the data from the now "deleted" file, then there is nothing that can be done.
 
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Ich_bin_noob

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How do I do this? My phone (G2) doesnt have a sd card, only internal 32GB memory.

 
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